List of works by Franz Behr

This list is manually maintained, therefore some of the available pieces may not yet be linked from this page. For an automatically generated alphabetical list of all available pieces, please see Category:Behr, Franz.

For works published under Behr’s pseudonym Charles Godard, we are presently using the separate List of works by Charles Godard. This list does contain works published under Behr’s real name, as Francesco d'Orso, and under a couple of other pseudonyms, though they will probably need to be separated out, especially as the opus numbers in some cases confusingly overlap (and it is not always clear and provable that a work was in fact by Behr under a certain pseudonym rather than by someone else using that pseudonym or by someone else whose actual name that was.)

Each entry attempts to include opus number, date of publication, publisher, and sometimes when available the plate number of the first edition if determinable; also the instrumentation if the work is not primarily and originally a piano solo work.

Behr composed / published some six hundred and more collections of opp., and this is very much under construction for now and for awhile; please pardon our dust... (at least we're not speaking of Fritz Kirchner (1840–1907) whose published works, also mainly for piano it seems, exceeded a thousand, as did Arnoldo Sartorio's...)

It is possible that "Behr, Franç." / François Behr might not be the same composer; his linear stream of opus numbers in the scanned Hofmeister XIX database seems to run about 11 years later, as though a nephew or younger brother rather than the same composer. It may be necessary to go through this list and the workpages and distinguish which are attributed to Franz, which to "Franç."/François Behr, for this reason; just because names seem to be the same name in different languages does not mean they are the same person- even the same name unabbreviated is not always the same person, making attribution-and-worklist-compiling by journal (HMB, etc.) the headache it is... (and needing to be augmented, at least, by the composer's own notes, documents, etc. when they - hopefully - exist!!) - E. Schissel